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Screenplay Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Roddy Doyle
Director Alan Parker

The Commitments

Tagline: They had nothing to lose, they risked it all.

Release Date: 1991-08-14

Duration: 118 minutes

Synopsis

Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.

Casting

  • Maria Doyle Kennedy
    Natalie Murphy
  • Colm Meaney
    Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.
  • Bronagh Gallagher
    Bernie McGloughlin
  • Angeline Ball
    Imelda Quirke
  • Liam Carney
    Duffy
  • Andrea Corr
    Sharon Rabbitte
  • Sean Hughes
    Dave from Eeijit Records
  • Caroline Corr
    (uncredited)
  • Alan Parker
    Eejit Record Producer
  • Ger Ryan
    Pawnbroker

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